78 RPM - Brown's Ferry Four - Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Just A Little Talk With Jesus - King - USA

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Artist:	Brown's Ferry Four
Label:	King
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	530
Date:	May 1946
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	5 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Brown's Ferry Four	Will The Circle Be Unbroken	Arr. Brown's Ferry Four	Rate
B	Brown's Ferry Four	Just A Little Talk With Jesus	Arr. Brown's Ferry Four	Rate

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Quartet with Guitars

BB May 11, 1946, p. 31, 132

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Uploaded By: fixbutte
Description: A Side Label

Number: 2947259

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Description: King 530 B side label (original release)

Number: 856157

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Description: King 530 A side label (later 1946 repress)

Number: 858057

Uploaded By: fixbutte
Description: King 530 B side label (later 1946 repress)

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historyofcountrymusic 9th Apr 2022		fixbutte - Added original b-side label image - hopefully that’s fills another image gap ! That definitely sounds like Red Foley on the b-side but I can’t make him out on the a-side. I agree that there’s no clear hint of Merle Travis’ guitar.



fixbutte 27th Feb 2021		Original A-side label added, filling one of the last gaps in the early King discography here, see my list The King of Hillbilly - King 500 / 1000 Series. Unfortunately the B-side label of this copy has the new design introduced some months later that is already shown here.



fixbutte 7th Oct 2015		Here's a YouTube video of group's excellent recording of "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", credited as arranged by the group but actually using the lyrics rewritten by A. P. Carter for the Carter Family in 1935. As said before, Alton Delmore handles the lead vocal in the verses, and if Merle Travis was there, his contribution is not obvious. Anyway, the record must have been quite successful, and the group was requested to make many more records for King.



fixbutte 6th Oct 2015		Brown's Ferry Four was founded as a mock gospel quartet by the Delmore Brothers, Merle Travis and Grandpa Jones in 1944, when they were all playing for the WLW radio station in Cincinnati, OH (see King 503). For this recording, the group's first, the information about date, place and lineup is controversial though. Several sources mention a February or March 1946 session at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA, with Alton Delmore (lead baritone vocal, guitar), Rabon Delmore (tenor vocal, guitar), Grandpa Jones (baritone vocal), and Merle Travis (bass vocal, guitar). The Delmore Brothers website, however, comes to the conclusion that the session took place at the King Studio in Cincinnati, OH, around January 1946, and that Merle Travis was not present on this session, the bass singer was rather Red Foley and the two guitars were played by the Delmores (based on the matrix numbers and the acetates which read "Cincinnati, Ohio", and the recorded music; Red Foley would definitely provide the bass vocal on some later recordings of Brown's Ferry Four).

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